Monsters Resurrected

Season

2009

USA

5.6

TV-PG

Long-extinct giant beasts and the strange world they once inhabited areresurrected through fossil evidence and other scientific data in this Discovery Channel program that reveals how these creatures once lived and flourished.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Terror Bird

When the land bridge between North and South America formed, the terror bird migrated north where is competed with the saber tooth cat and wolves. This program examine why the wolf survived despite the fearsome armory of the other two predators.

S1 • E2

T-Rex of the Deep

An imperiled land lizard evolved in just a few million years into an apex predator in the fearsome Cretaceous oceans, driving the largest shark to extinction and plesiosaurs to new environs.

S1 • E3

Biggest Killer Dino

Spinosaurus was the largest dinosaur carnivore in history but was long known only from the photographs of a single partial skeleton lost to the world in a World War Two air raid. That, of course, makes paleontologists all the more curious and determined and additional fossil fragments have gradually been found. This program reviews what they have uncovered and what they suspect.

S1 • E4

Spinosaurus

S1 • E5

Bear Dog

S1 • E6

Great American Predator

Paleontologists ponder how a carnosaur a bit smaller than Tyrannosaurus Rex could hunt a sauropod several times its size when T-Rex hunted smaller prey. The answer lies in a detailed look at the predator's anatomy, their prey and and a fossil track of an attack on a sauropod.

S1 • E7

The Giant Ripper

After the age of dinosaurs Australia was dominated by reptiles rather than the marsupials it is known for. The biggest of them all was a monitor lizard larger than a crocodile called Magalania. This program reviews the anatomical features that make Megalania and its chief competitor, the marsupial lion, apex predators.